Originally Posted by usmc-sgt

Floating down a runway to a certain extent can be allowable but to make it common practice is asking for trouble. You are correct that if you fly down the ILS at an approach speed of 120 and 800fpm that it will put you AT the thousand footers so unless you want to drive it into the ground you can expect 500 or so more feet for passenger comfort. The first third of the runway is not a suggestion though.

If someone is floating down the runway in search of a great landing it is due to poor technique. A nice soft landing just past the thousand footers is easily workable providing the correct airspeed as well as correct timing of power reduction and flare or variant of the flare depending on what you fly. If you are not controlling those elements then the taking of more runway is just a crutch for some missing links in a pilots bag of tricks and abilities.